The Great American Beer Festival chugs its way into town Thursday through Saturday – and that means one thing:

SILENT DISCO!

Oskar Blues Brewery once again hosts the highlight of the fest, a disco in a corner of the Colorado Convention Center with people wearing headphones. DJ Zen and Reggie B will spin the vinyl as the people dance. No headphones, no disco.

And they look pretty silly, like John Travolta in meltdown mode, with their arms flailing to the beat. All alone in the world of the Bee Gees and Gloria Gaynor. Dancers will also receive “beer bling” at the velvet rope, including empty beer cans made into necklaces. Last year people lined up to get down – taking a break from tasting 1,886 beers.

“It’s either really inspired or really cheesy,” says Marty Jones of Oskar Blues. “But it’s one of the cool things at the festival.”

The best part of the disco is the silence, says Jones. “I’m a musician, but every year I come to the conclusion that music rarely fits with a beer festival. It interferes with beer talk.”

More eats. Jesse Morreale is not an owner of the shuttered Chama restaurant in Belmar, as I reported here Friday … Rebecca Weitzman of Cafe Star on East Colfax is taking her toque to NYC to be sous chef at Bobby Flay’s hit eatery Bar Americain … Sightem: Mandy Moore at Boulder’s Sunflower Restaurant on Thursday night.

Flix and food. James Mazzio, named by Food & Wine Magazine as one of the country’s Best New Chefs in 1999 and currently at Via, is doing the food for the upcoming Neighborhood Flix Cinema & Café at the Tattered Cover Complex on East Colfax.

Independent films with some independent flavors is what Flix boss Jimmie Lee Smith is aiming at. You can peek at the ambitious menu at neighborhoodflix.com. It’s offering a lineup that includes sweet-potato fries, chicken satay, pizzas, salads, gumbo and dirty rice, pulled-pork sandwiches, desserts. Not your usual lineup of Dots and Raisinets.

“(Mazzio’s) been part of the project for 18 months,” says Smith. “The hook is serving healthy, exciting food – and getting away from greasy popcorn and cheese-slathered nachos.”

Go cheerleaders. Seventy-five Broncos cheerleaders alumni return for the pep squad’s 15th reunion today. They’ll kick it at the halftime show, ending with a 100-woman kickline with the current team.

More important, the alumni, current cheerleaders and Broncos staffers, 170 strong, will Race for the Cure this morning in Team Lisa, supporting former cheerleader Lisa Pevateaux, who is pregnant and going through breast-cancer treatment.

City spirit. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “Eat, Pray, Love,” was on “Oprah” on Friday – and she’s in Denver at 1:30 p.m. April 6 at the Paramount; tix on sale Monday at tickethorse.com. and 866-461-6556 … Sez who: “When they start the game, they don’t yell, ‘Work ball.’ They say, ‘Play ball.”‘ Willie Stargell

Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Husted also appears Tuesdays and Fridays on “Good Day Colorado” on Fox 31. You can reach him at 303-954-1486 or bhusted@denverpost.com. Take a peek at Husted’s next column at denverpostbloghouse.com/husted.

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